Reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This is because of a feature known as emergence. When you put together large numbers of pieces and parts, the whole can become something greater than the sum.

Vision is more than looking.

This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.

Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change.

...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.